Prohibition

Website: http://www.prohibition.org

Members of the Legislature: 1
Highest Office Won: Congress (1914)
Founded: 1869 
NOTE: Congressman Charles H. Randall, elected three times, was the only member of the party to be elected to federal partisan office.

The Prohibition Party was first formed in 1869, and was one of the original five parties to qualify for primary elections in 1910. The main goal for the party was "the legislative prohibition of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages"* The primary goal of the party was accomplished in the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution which prohibited "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors." California became the twenty-second of forty-five state to ratify the amendment on January 13, 1919.

Support for the Prohibition eventually declined nationwide, and it was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. California was the fourteenth of thirty-eight states to ratify the 21st Amendment on July 24, 1933. Following the Prohibition, the earlier support enjoyed by the party continued to dissolve, although several states continued to maintain Prohibition status. The number of these states gradually declined until 1966, when no remaining statewide prohibition laws existed."*

California's Prohibition Party continued to run candidates for partisan office until 1962, when it became the first party to lose its qualified status in nearly a decade. Although there were no additional candidates for Assembly, State Senate, or Congress, the Prohibition Party continued to run candidates for President until 1972.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Prohibition Party's list of California's candidates